Policies, Procedures and Standards for Certification of Professional School Personnel [in Pennsylvania].

Duncan, Gertrude I., Ed.; And Others

This document presents the standards, policies, and procedures for implementing the approved program approach to the certification of professional school personnel in Pennsylvania. Part 1 states the policies and procedures for institutional and program approval of undergraduate and graduate programs. Part 2 states general and specific program approval standards for undergraduate and graduate programs. Specific standards are listed for instructional certificates, endorsements to instructional certificates, educational specialist certificates, supervisory certificates, and administrative certificates and commissions. Part 3 includes common standards, occupational experiences and competency regulations, vocational instructional certificate titles, and responsibilities of the cooperative education and vocational education coordinators in vocational education. Part 4 consists of eight appendixes, including "General Information Relation to Institutional Application and Self-Study for Institution or Program Approval," instructions for fact sheets, a faculty data sheet, a curriculum schedule, and a behavioral competency study. (PD)